Aircraft over the City: Night Time Activity Patterns using Image Stacking

The image below is our first take at using a technique known as ‘image stacking’ to capture activities in the skies above London at night.

Comprised of 1700 photographs taken 10 seconds apart it is possible to identify City Airport (on the left) and the flightpath to Heathrow. Its not going to win any photography awards but by simply using a low cost webcam mounted inside a waterproof torch it is possible to get some interesting views of the city and the skyline.

that’s very exciting! visualising trajectories could be nice as well but might require more imagesmade me install evocam on a macmini just to try timelapse things and i’m now wondering about the setup of the waterproof torch